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>>>>> On Fri, 2 Dec 2016, Mike Gilbert wrote: |
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> The devmanual states: |
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> The name section should contain only lowercase non-accented letters, |
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> the digits 0-9, hyphens, underscores and plus characters. Uppercase |
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> characters are strongly discouraged, but technically valid. |
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> https://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/file-format/index.html |
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> Why are uppercase characters strongly discouraged? |
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> Wouldn't it make sense to follow upstream's naming convention? |
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No, because even for the most common packages it would be hard to |
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guess what the actual convention is. For example, is it GCC (used on |
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its web page and in documentation) or gcc (name of the command and |
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displayed by gcc --version)? |
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If we allow uppercase, then should we also allow two packages in the |
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tree whose names differ only in character case? |
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Ulrich |
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